Ivan Almes (PhD 2018), associate professor at the Department of History, director of the Ihor Skochylias Center for Religious Culture, and academic coordinator of the Kyivan Christianity Research Program at the Ukrainian Catholic University. He did internships at the European University Viadrina (Frankfurt/Oder), Institute of the Eastern Churches of Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg (Germany), and Institute of Sangalli (Florence). He researches the history of reading, monasticism, and the religious history of early modern Ukraine and has authored more than 40 scholarly papers. His last book is From Prayer to Education: History of Monks’ Reading in the Lviv Eparchy of the 17th and 18th Centuries” (Lviv, 2021). He is a member of the Historical Commission of the Shevchenko Scientific Society and the Ukrainian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.